Criticism, crisis, and contemporary narrative [electronic resource] : textual horizons in an age of global risk / edited by Paul Crosthwaite.

Criticism, crisis, and contemporary narrative [electronic resource] : textual horizons in an age of global risk / edited by Paul Crosthwaite.

9780203831021 (electronic bk.)
0203831020 (electronic bk.)
9780415879491
0415879493

New York : Routledge, 2011.

English

1 online resource (vi, 226 pages) : illustrations.

PN441 .C75 2011eb

801/.95

Critical thought/critical times. Will the apocalypse have been now? : Literary criticism in an age of global risk / Molly Wallace -- The future of the future / Nick Mansfield -- The incredible shrinking human / Charlie Gere -- The risks of sustainability / Karen Pinkus -- Critical perspectives on crisis narratives. Narrating the coming pandemic : pandemic influenza, anticipatory anxiety, and neurotic citizenship / Penelope Ironstone-Catterall -- Global capitalism and a dystopian South Africa : Trencherman by Eben Venter and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes / Andries Visagie -- Gray goo and you : the ecophagy of gobal capital / Robin Stoate -- Risk and morality in Ian McEwan's Saturday / Lidia De Michelis -- The corporation of terror : risk and the fictions of the "financial war" / Nicky Marsh -- Waiting for crisis : Casino Royale, financial aesthetics, and national narrative form / Alissa G. Karl -- Phantasmagoric finance : crisis and the supernatural in contemporary finance culture / Paul Crosthwaite -- The green afterword : Cormac McCarthy's The road and the ecological uncanny / Rebecca Giggs.

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Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 4.

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